v0.88.1: Live chat, chat replays and movable side panels

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✨ What's new

• 💬 Live chat: on a live stream, the chat opens on the right and stays up while you watch. Read it with emojis, badges, Super Chats and the pinned message, tap the stream's reactions (❤ 😄 🎉), and type messages on the VR keyboard, which now has emoji pages (with your channel's member emojis). A Support on desktop button points you to YouTube's window for Super Chats and memberships.
• 🏆 Top fans: your XP in the chat, the ranked list of the stream's top fans, and the top three's StreamXR 0.78.9 (Early Access) #1 / Feature 1 live chat #2 / Release v0.88.1: live chat, chat replays, movable side panels #3 pills.
• ⏪ Chat replays: on a finished stream that kept its chat, the chat plays along with the video. It pauses when you pause and follows when you jump back or ahead.
• ✋ Move the side panels: grip the grab bar beside either side's toolbar and put that side where you like. Recentering keeps it there, unless you turn on Settings → Safe zone → Recenter resets panels.
• 👆 Hide everything in one pull (suggested by u/TehSuperFruitSnack): pull the trigger on empty space and the panels, toolbars and search bar go away at once. Pull again to bring them back.
• ⏸️ Auto-hide while paused (suggested by u/TehSuperFruitSnack too), in Settings → Auto-hide: pause and soak in a 180° / 360° scene with nothing in the way (off by default).
• 🎚️ Quality menu icons: each quality shows its 4K / Full HD / HD (and 60 fps) icons, as the Quality button does.
• 🖐️ Clearer controller icons: the grip shows a hand when it will grab something, and the left D-pad shows a panel icon for show / hide.

🩹 Fixes

• The chat tries again on its own when YouTube's page hasn't loaded it yet, instead of showing "Couldn't load the chat".
• Typing in the chat and then clicking the search bar no longer shows two text cursors.
• Long dialog messages are no longer cut off.

🥽 Headsets

• Meta Quest 2 reported working through SteamVR, 8K videos included. Thank you, u/TehSuperFruitSnack! Its controllers show as Steam Frame models for now.
• Got another headset? Tell me how it goes in a Headset / controller compatibility issue.

🧪 Help test the live chat

Some chat features haven't been caught on a real stream yet: Super Chats and Stickers, memberships and gifts, owner / moderator badges, deleted and pinned messages, member emojis in a message you send, a chat you can't type in, and an ad during a chat replay. If you see one in VR, please tell me whether it looked right: the README's "How you can help" has the details.

⬆️ Updating

Download the source code below and replace your StreamXR folder, then go to chrome://extensions and click Reload on StreamXR. Reload your YouTube tab too, since an open tab keeps running the old version. Your settings are kept. The optional Skip Helper hasn't changed.

Full list of changes: CHANGELOG.md

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